Every day we read more news stories and diaries about blatant attempts at voter suppression - voter roll purges, vote caging, preventing college students from registering, absentee ballot scams, voter intimidation, absurd ID requirements, using foreclosure lists to challenge residency, delaying new citizen applications too late for registration, changing polling places without notice to voters, refusing to restore ex-felons' voting rights in a timely manner, suing to stop same day registration/voting, attacking voter registration groups, inaccurate and incomplete voter lists, confusing mailings to voters...the list goes on and on and on.
There is, without question, a serious nationally coordinated Republican campaign to prevent Americans from exercising our right to vote. Perhaps not surprising, since it is the only way they can win when they know the majority of the country is feed up after 8 years of their corrupt rule. (And that isn't even dealing with the questions of protecting the integrity of the vote count.)
In this environment, I am happy to be able to report a small but encouraging event, an antidote to such cynical efforts - an effort where a government official was bending over backwards to make voting easier.